Dark humor and social satire in the modern British novel [electronic resource] / by Lisa Colletta.
By: Colletta, Lisa.
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BookPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003Description: 154 p.Subject(s): English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Humorous stories, English -- History and criticism | Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Satire, English -- History and criticism | Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain | Social problems in literature | Black humorGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 823/.9109355 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Modernism and Dark Humor -- 1. Comedy Theory, the Social Novel, and Freud -- 2. Criticizing the Social System: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's Dark Comedy of Manners -- 3. The Dark Domestic Vision of Ivy Compton-Burnett: A House and Its Head -- 4. The Too, Too Bogus World: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies -- 5. Astolpho Meets Sisyphus: Melancholy and Repetition in Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men.
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